cook car
cook car noun: a horse-pulled wagon used to provide food for threshing crews.
Noun
cook car (plural cook cars)
- A horse-pulled wagon used to provide food for threshing crews.
- I was once marooned for two weeks in Dakota during a rainy spell on a farm, slept in a leaky barn, ate in a cook car and shivered the rest of the time.1929, Intui Layman, “The Birth of the Hobo”, in Social Science, volume 5, number 1, →JSTOR, page 32
- Fortunately the cook car was close to the bunkhouse or we might have gone hungry during the three days, marooned by snow and cold.1930, Robert L. Yates, When I Was A Harvester, The Macmillan Company, page 138
Examples of cook car in a sentence
- In a good season we put in as many as 50 days on a cook car.1986, Elizabeth Yoder Woodiwiss, “Homesteading on the Prairies”, in Mennonite Historical Bulletin, volume 47, number 4, page 2:
- These cook cars were homemade and made to suit the particular needs and size of the crew.1988, T. Eugene Barrows, “Thrashing in Montana at the Turn of the Century”, in Montana: The Magazine of Western History, volume 38, number...
Forms of cook car
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Questions about cook car
- What does cook car mean?
- Cook car means a horse-pulled wagon used to provide food for threshing crews.
- How do you use cook car in a sentence?
- In a good season we put in as many as 50 days on a cook car.
- What part of speech is cook car?
- Cook car is a noun.
- What is the plural of cook car?
- The plural of cook car is cook cars.
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